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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: been pronounced he was led towards the place of death below
Yoshida's window. To turn the head would have been to
implicate his fellow-prisoner; but he threw him a look from
his eye, and bade him farewell in a loud voice, with these
two Chinese verses:-
"It is better to be a crystal and be broken,
Than to remain perfect like a tile upon the housetop."
So Kusakabe, from the highlands of Satzuma, passed out of the
theatre of this world. His death was like an antique
worthy's.
A little after, and Yoshida too must appear before the Court.
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